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Oklahoma Tornado Fallout: The Sequester Cut Disaster Assistance and Weather-Warning Funds AP

Oklahoma Tornado Fallout: The Sequester Cut Disaster Assistance and Weather-Warning Funds

Disaster personnel and volunteers have to rely critical federal funding that's been slashed.

Life Lessons in Fighting the Culture of Bullshit Pitzer College/YouTube

Life Lessons in Fighting the Culture of Bullshit

What politics taught me that current graduates need to know.

2 SCOTUS Judges in 1971: Espionage Act Doesn't Apply to the Press Reuters

2 SCOTUS Judges in 1971: Espionage Act Doesn't Apply to the Press

Justices Hugo Black and William O. Douglas specifically addressed a section of the law at issue today.

Costs of Spying on the AP That the Establishment Ignores Reuters

Costs of Spying on the AP That the Establishment Ignores

A press that's able to ferret out government secrets is more important than a government that can keep secrets.

1st Amendment Champion Hugo Black Rebukes Team Obama From the Grave Wikimedia Commons

1st Amendment Champion Hugo Black Rebukes Team Obama From the Grave

His concurrence in the Pentagon Papers case is worth revisiting as DOJ tries to criminalize national security journalism.

The Impossibility of Being Barack Obama

Every now and then we see how hard his balancing act is.

Beyond Rosen and the AP: Who Else Has the DoJ Put Under Surveillance? Reuters

Beyond Rosen and the AP: Who Else Has the DoJ Put Under Surveillance?

The AP, Fox News, and WikiLeaks were not the only outlets to find their sources embroiled in leak investigations.

How the Obama Administration Talks to Black America Jason Reed/Reuters

How the Obama Administration Talks to Black America

"Convenient race-talk" from a president who ought to know better

Obama's Troubles Could Put Massachusetts Senate Seat in Play Again AP

Obama's Troubles Could Put Massachusetts Senate Seat in Play Again

In 2010, Republicans won a special election during a low point of Obama's presidency. Will history repeat itself?

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